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Japan in Europe and Sweden

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2009

Bert Edström
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Abstract

Until Japan opened its shores in the 1850s, images of Japan in Europe were meagre and long outdated. In Sweden, attitudes to Japan have been heavily influenced by the writings of Carl Peter Thunberg from 1793 and by the lack of imperial traditions as well as the strong national respect for equality

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Focus: Japan and Europe
Information
European Review , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , October 2000 , pp. 511 - 520
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Copyright © Academia Europaea 2000

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